page_title: Deceangli
hierarchical_section_title: Deceangli
caption_attribution_description: Llwythi Cymru yng nghyfnod y Rhufeiniaid Tribes of Wales in the Roman period Rhion Pritchard
context_page_description: The Deceangli or Deceangi were one of the Celtic tribes living in Wales, before and during the Roman invasion of Britain. The tribe lived in Wales and west Cheshire but it is uncertain whether their territory covered only the modern counties of Flintshire, Denbighshire and part of Cheshire in what is now England or whether it extended further west into Gwynedd. They lived in hill forts running in a chain through the Clwydian Range and their tribal capital was Canovium.
  Assaults on the Welsh tribes were made under the legate Publius Ostorius Scapula who attacked the Deceangli in 48 AD. They appear to have surrendered with little resistance, unlike the Silures and the Ordovices who put up a long and bitter resistance to Roman rule. No Roman town is known to have existed in the territory of this tribe, though the auxiliary fort of Canovium was probably in their lands and may have had a civilian settlement around it.
  Roman mine workings of lead and silver are evident in the regions occupied by the Deceangli. Several sows of lead have been found in Chester, one weighing 192 lbs bears the markings: IMP VESP AVGV T IMP III DECEANGI.
context_section_description: The Deceangli or Deceangi (Welsh: Tegeingl) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Wales, before and during the Roman invasion of Britain. The tribe lived in Wales and west Cheshire but it is uncertain whether their territory covered only the modern counties of Flintshire, Denbighshire and part of Cheshire in what is now England or whether it extended further west into Gwynedd. They lived in hill forts running in a chain through the Clwydian Range and their tribal capital was Canovium.
  Assaults on the Welsh tribes were made under the legate Publius Ostorius Scapula who attacked the Deceangli in 48 AD. They appear to have surrendered with little resistance, unlike the Silures and the Ordovices who put up a long and bitter resistance to Roman rule. No Roman town is known to have existed in the territory of this tribe, though the auxiliary fort of Canovium (Caerhun) was probably in their lands and may have had a civilian settlement around it.
  Roman mine workings of lead and silver are evident in the regions occupied by the Deceangli. Several sows of lead have been found in Chester, one weighing 192 lbs bears the markings: IMP VESP AVGV T IMP III DECEANGI. Another, found near Tarvin Bridge, weighing 179 lbs is inscribed: IMP VESP V T IMP III COS DECEANGI and is dated to AD 74. Both are displayed in the Grosvenor Museum.
caption: Tribes within the map of present-day Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. Exact boundaries are conjectural.
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